Quote from swisscosmo :

hey my dad he says since the french droped out of the F1 that Canada may have a chance of getting in. But the main reason Canada was kicked/droped out of the F1 was becuase of the cost to transport all the F1 cars and verything over to North America for just one race, but i think if they add another 2 or 3 curciuts into the F1 calander over in North America i think Montreal may get back in.

Maybe... It could happen and a Canadian, Mexican and US Grand Prix would be great. I mean tracks like Laguna Seca, Autodromo Hernandez, Long Beach, Monterrey, Mont Tremblent are awsome, and I think, with some modifications, even the FIA would agree to having them in the carlendar.

Quote from swisscosmo :

I can't really say which tracks i think would be good to get into the F1 in the US or Canada but i can say possibly Edmonton becuase its used for the North American F1 Series

Call it by the name... Indy Car Series wich merged with the ChampCar series, and both are based on the old Formula 5000... Calling it an F1 series would be totally overrated for its grid quality, the car quality and its financiell situation. Nontheless it is one of the two Top-Level-Single-Seater-Serieses. I still belive the better series died.

Additionally Edmonton is one of the tracks wich would never get the needed FIA rating to hold a race.

Quote from swisscosmo :

i just don't want to see any Oval tracks becuase there bloody boring i think going around and around in a oval/circle.

Well... F1 will never ever hold an Oval race... I think that before they include an oval race, they will hold an 24h race at Monte Carlo personally I'm an oval fan, but the ones are, the others aren't.
Reminds me of a teacher of mine: She told us, that she hates motorsports... well not everything, she really loves rallyes. She even gave a reason "Cause driving in the circle is boring and shows some stupidy"

Quote from swisscosmo :

P.S. maybe we should start a petition to get Montreal back into the F1

Well there was an internet petition, wich did not suceed. Well thinking of all petitions I took part, even a proper, non-internet petition, would fail, cause F1 is not a democracy, it's an autocracy by Bernie Ecclestone.

Quote from J@tko :

Well... just quebec really

Pile of shit this is.

In the end we'll just have Grand Prix in countries no-one knows where on earth they are, on crappy tracks with no overtaking just cos teh local Sheik has a few bob.

I can guarentee by 2050 there will be a Moon Grand Prix, cos it's novel and someone rich will be living there. Bullshit.

No there won't be a moon GP... cause if a car flips, due to an accident, the driver is becoming a new mayor tom... well exept they are having something like a pod-racer (StarWars Ep. 1)

Quote from TFalke55 :

Well... F1 will never ever hold an Oval race..

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F1 had an oval round from 1950-1961. Alright no-one turned up but meh - they all saw sense

Quote from J@tko :

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F1 had an oval round from 1950-1961. Alright no-one turned up but meh - they all saw sense

You know? barely anyone of the F1 european racers took part in the Indy500 no F1 champion or other race winner... It just counted to the World Championship

Formula One did NOT have an oval round. The World Driver's Championship did. Formula One was not the same as the WDC until 1983 when all F1 races were part of the WDC (apart from the Trofeo Indoor, which wasn't actually indoors). Before that not all WDC rounds were run to F1 regs. The Indy 500 for the first ten years and in 1952 and 1953 the WDC was run to Formula Two regulations to improve the grids.

When the F1 WDC was set up in the 1950s it was largely a resurrection of the 1930s scene. The cars were basically the old 1.5 litre supercharged voiturettes (with an NA option) - they did not bring back the 4.5 or 3.0 blown cars as most of them were made in a country which wasn't really in a position to do much motor racing following the - ahem - major diplomatic incident in the previous decade. Like the 1930s series there were few races, about six. The only new one was Britain - we never had a championship GP until 1950 due to political infighting and not really having a manufacturers.


There were tonnes of non-championship races in both the 30s and the 1950s - many of which were treated as importantly as championship race.

Duke_toaster shall now go off on a very bizzare tangent.

For example, in 1937 the grid for the Belgian GP was depleted due to shipping cars over for a race in the US (at Roosevelt Raceway in New York where they race F1 cars against American machinery) the previous week which was delayed due to Saturday being a rainout and not wanting to race on Sunday. [OT]Whilst it was common practice for record attempts and the AVUSrennen, the Silver Arrows cars did not usually have swastikas painted on them. They did at the race at Roosevelt Raceway. And no, it wasn't their idea - the local organizers asked for them to do it [/OT]

Well, that's now official, the negotiations have failed and the Canadian GP will not be back in 2009. Quebec's PM confirmed it, and there will be a press conference at 3pm EST.

I'm disgusted and loathe Bernie more than ever.

Every month F1 moves further towards self destruction, why must the FIA and Bernie try so hard to alienate just about everyone?

It really is high time that there was some sort of revolution.

They're a bunch of idiots -_-.

And last week there was a story that Mr. Mummy seriously helped Chinese GP to stay alive couple of years ago.

... who joins me forming a new and better Formula 1

09 cars look silly, 09 track choice is not that exiting...

Slowly removing the tracks which don't suit the Ferrari...

...sorry I couldn't help it, I want to start a conspiracy!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/h ... t/formula_one/7728866.stm

Oh dear. The commies can't afford Bernie's fees either.

Quote :

The event has been lucrative for F1 commercial boss Bernie Ecclestone, who is believed to charge China some of the highest fees to host a race.

Oh dear. What a shame for him.

I suppose another bum session from Tilke and it'll be back in no time though

The top F1 teams should seriously consider a break-out series leaving Bernie and the FIA alone to play with their licenses and trademarks. The whole thing has just become a parody of itself lately. F1 needs to be less business and more motorsport.

Quote from wien :

The top F1 teams should seriously consider a break-out series leaving Bernie and the FIA alone to play with their licenses and trademarks. The whole thing has just become a parody of itself lately. F1 needs to be less business and more motorsport.

Revolution!

If things carry on like this then perhaps 5 years in the future I can beleive this may happen.

I don't know if anyone mentioned the thought, but I think F1 is losing it's soul with more and more tracks without a bit of history.

Quote from ATHome :

I don't know if anyone mentioned the thought, but I think F1 is losing it's soul with more and more tracks without a bit of history.

That doesn't matter if we get tracks that have potential to create their own history. The trouble is we seem to get carparks in the middle of the desert.

The wall of champions... a place of F1+CART history... but the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve even makes history without F1... the first ever wet race in NASCAR history

I hope to see an IndyCar/ALMS combo on the other permitted race event... or A1GP (wich already is willing to participate at Surfers Paradise, a track Indy Car threw out of its schedule)

Bump

Recent developments on this. Rumors have been going wild in the past months, but nothing was really credible yet.

Bernie Ecclestone and a potential Canada F1 GP promoter, Francois Dumontier, have met regarding a possible of a 2010 Canada F1 GP. A contract has not been signed, but this is a path to the light!

The provisional calendar for the 2010 season is set to be released next Wednesday, so we should have a good idea of the situation then.

Governments have also allegedly agreed to increase their part in this from 50M$ to 75M$.

Sources: CBC, SRC, F1-LIVE

Good News, The races are always exciting at Canada.

Hope this happens, then the USA GP can come back and the mickey mouse races at mickey mouse circuits in mickey mouse countries can go

Quote from duke_toaster :

Hope this happens, then the USA GP can come back and the mickey mouse races at mickey mouse circuits in mickey mouse countries can go

If the mickey mouse circuit is called Laguna Seca, I'd be happy As long as it won't be Disney World Motorspeedway

Don't you mea Walt Disney World Speedway?

It hosted the first ever IRL race (IIRC, won by Buzz Calkins)

Although, IMO, F1 doesn't do the track justice. Those of you on YT, look up batallionfan888, look up the Canadian Tire Series race from there. We need more stuff like that on it

Or...just a radical overhaul of the F1 regs to promote passing.

Also, F1 at Laguna? Toyota tested there in 2005 (I think it was) and set a new lap record.

Why not throw it across the other side of the country so canada still has GP? Though id rather not see it moved from Montreal, just get some better tarmac i mean it cant be that hard, can it?

F1 at Trois-Rivieres?

Although, thinking about it...you got:

Mosport
Trois-Rivieres
Toronto
Vancouver
Edmonton
Montreal

Don't forget Mont-Tremblant, the most awesomest track ever!

Trois-Rivieres would probably be too narrow, though.

I think Gilles-Villeneuve and Mont-Tremblant are probably the best choices in Canada, and I don't say that only because they're in my province! I just like the site in Montreal, it's unique

They've repaved Gilles-Villeneuve recently, like a month ago or something. Basically what happens is that the winter kills it every year (although it's not as bad as a proper road as i t doesn't get salt and continual snow plowing), so to be safe it would need to be repaved every year in April or something. Besides, all that bad asphalt was just an excuse Bernie could use to get the GP out. The real problem was that he didn't get as much money as he wanted.